Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and the latest Intel CPUs to help you to power your cloud applications and achieve faster results with low latency. All ECS instances come with Anti-DDoS protection to safeguard your data and applications from DDoS and Trojan attacks.

Deploy ECS instances with just a few clicks from the easy-to-use console and scale capacity up or down based on real-time demands. This means you only pay for the resources you use and avoid the need to procure expensive IT infrastructure and hire large network teams.

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Features

Elastic and Flexible Resource Utilization

A variety of payment types and payment cycles are available for users to balance their needs between flexible resource utilization and low usage cost

Annual/monthly subscription

Suitable for long-term use scenarios to access ECS resources at prices as low as 50% off the list price for three years

Pay-As-You-Go

Create and consume resources as they are needed for specific business requirements and only be billed for the resources used in the corresponding cycle

Real time bidding subscription

Purchase instances at a price as low as 90% discount off Pay-As-You-Go subscription to further optimize the cost of the temporary resource utilization. The price per hour is determined by the relationship between supply and demand

Enterprise-oriented Computing Instances, Storage and Networking

Instance specifications and storage types optimized for various scenarios in computing, storage and network, together with the private network, are provided for enterprises to locate the most cost-effective resource solution during the deployment of various applications

Highly Stable Applications and Reliable Data Storage

Large-scale redundancy architectures guarantee the availability of running instances and the reliability of data stored in cloud disks

High data reliability and service availability

Instance availability up to 99.95% and cloud disk data reliability no less than 99.9999999%

Various Security and Monitoring Resources

Alibaba Cloud Security is available free of charge to provide basic protection for network security and server security. CloudMonitor is also available free of charge to guarantee service security through a range of real time alert and notification services.

Site Monitoring: Provides statistics-collection, monitoring, and alert notifications for availability and response time for services including http, ping, dns, tcp, udp, smtp, pop and ftpCloud Service Monitoring: Provides cloud service monitoring and alert notifications, as well as a custom monitoring service to allow users to customize their personalized monitoring needsAlert and Contact Management: Provides uniform batch management for alert policies and alert notifications through a range of channels including text message, email, TradeManager (WangWang), and interface callback

Multiple Management Methods and Full Management Permissions

The product console, remote terminals, and APIs provides multiple management methods and full management permissions to manage and control resources

Wide Range of Image Types For Accelerated Application Deployment

Official public images provided by Alibaba Cloud

Multiple release versions are available for Windows and Linux operating systems

Choose from images provided by independent software vendor on the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace

A vast number of server running environments, tools and software images are available

Shared images

Through the ECS console or ECS API, the owner of user-defined images can share their images with another user. The user with whom the images are shared can use the images to create ECS instances and replace the system disk

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Choose How You Pay

Alibaba Cloud ECS provides different purchasing methods. Based on your needs, you can select Pay-As-You-Go or Subscription.

Pay-As-You-Go

Bills you for the exact amount of resources you use. Activate or release resources at any time with no hardware or maintenance costs.

Subscription

Subscription fees are lower on average than that of Pay-As-You-Go, and suited for those requiring long-term resources at reduced cost.